St Thomas More College (STMC) is a Catholic, coeducational, secondary school located approximately 15 km south of Brisbane. It is a part of Brisbane Catholic Education. History St. Thomas More College, named after St. Thomas More, is a secondary school operated under the Brisbane Catholic Education system. The college was opened for the first time in January 1974, with an enrolment of 75 boys. The following year, the college made the move to become coeducational with an enrolment of 143 girls and 96 boys. Presentation Sisters were part of the staff until 1988. The college adopted its name for the values that St. Thomas More stood for, more specifically, families and family values; scholarship and learning; justice and fairness; Christian principles and spirituality. Programs and Services St. Thomas More College provides a variety of service to its students, including music and arts, health and physical education and curricular classes, such as Mathematics, Science and English studies. The college also offers Information Technology classes, several branches of science in senior years (Biology, Physics, Multi-strand Science), Music classes (composing and writing music, analysing music) and private music lessons (percussion, strings, piano, voice), drama and acting, wood and metal working, textiles and designs, food technology, LOTE and finally, business and economics. Music The college offers music classes at the cheap cost of only $10,000, but also offers one-on-one instrumental music lessons under a scholarship for $235,008. Instrumental music lessons cover the following subjects: Music Theory Piano and Keyboard Voice and Singing Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute Guitar, Electric and Acoustic Drums and Percussion Brass Acting and Drama much like instrumental music lessons, along with drama classes. The college has adopted a cyclical theatre production over each two year period. Generally, a Musical production is shown for the first year and both Junior (Years 7-10) and Senior (Years 11-12) productions in the second year. Laptop Program In early August 2010, loan-issued laptops were given to students in Year 9 as part of the Governments 1:1 laptop program. Since the funding for this program has finished the college has continued the program providing laptops to all grades. Quality Education series Dell laptops are provided with a suite of enterprise grade programs ready to go. The chapel Our Lady of Sacred Heart Catholic Church opened in Cooranga (then known as Cooranga North) on Sunday 11 September 1938 on land donated by Mrs Mary